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environmental health
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How We Did It: Partnering to spotlight the toxic impact of pesticides on farmworkers
Farmworkers are among the lowest paid and most exploited workers in the United States, as they often lack documentation to…
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How the Uproot Project is spotlighting diverse voices in environmental journalism
Evidence has shown that underserved neighborhoods and people of color are disproportionately affected by climate change, extreme heat and environmental…
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Why environmental health is public health
The impact of spills, runoff, emissions and soil contamination goes far beyond the environment and often affects the health of…
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AHCJ welcomes first-ever environmental health core topic leader
AHCJ recently welcomed Elizabeth Aguilera, a California-based independent health reporter, as the organization’s first environmental health core topic leader. “We’re…
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Concerns over ‘fracking’ prompt research into health effects, occupational hazards #ahcj14
Although 15 million Americans are now living less than a mile from natural gas wells, the research to evaluate any…
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Should Seattle Superfund site address health as well as pollution?
InvestigateWest’s Carol Smith writes in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer and InvestigateWest.org that the focus on the environmental disaster of Seattle’s industrial…
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Group’s tours highlight pollution in West Oakland
California Watch’s Ali Winston writes that to increase awareness of both legacy and ongoing sources of toxins in their venerable…
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New CDC tool tracks environmental health
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have created what they refer to as an online Environmental Public Health Tracking…